Atlantic salmon from large Scottish east coast rivers - genetic stock identification: report

A report which investigates the potential to sample the genetic constitution of Atlantic salmon to work out which rivers they came from and whether it was possible to distinguish fish from among the large east coast rivers of Scotland.


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